The microclimate of evergreen riparian forest along the Rio Potrero
below a large waterfall is briefly contrasted with microclimate of the
adjacent deciduous forest in the dry season and wet season. Near the '
end of ...
The tropics are subject to seasonal
extremes. There are times of year when
the weather is harsh, when food is scarce,
when there is too much sun, or too much
rain. Many tropical animals tough out the hard times
by ...
The Crafoord Prize for 1984 was awarded in biosciences with particular emphasis
on ecology. The field selected was "coevolution - the mutual adaption
of organism populations in the natural environment". The prizewinner, ...
In 1967, Banegas and coworkers stated clearly that Dermatobia hominis is "unable to survive the prolonged
dry season in the lowlands along the Pacific coast" of Central America. While this statement may be
true for the ...
inflammability limits (4-75% in air), and is difficult
(sometimes dangerous) to store as a liquid.
Its principal benefits are that it would allow the
storage of energy in a post-fossil-fuel era, when electricity
is ...
2008 has been another successful year for our long-term project on the social and ecological factors affecting the
social organization of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, which ...
Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Gámez, Rordrigo(1993)
INBio has accepted the responsibility of undertaking a national inventory of Costa
Rica's biodiversity in a ten-year period beginning in approximately 1993. This is being
done in strong collaboration with the Ministry ...
Janzen, Daniel H.; Price D., Jones; Solomon, M. E.(1972-01)
What effect does the array of animals that kill seeds (and seedlings), henceforth
termed the seed predator guild, have on the community structure of
the plants in a forest? In north temperate forests, one of the major ...
The Santa Elena peninsula, northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is formed by three structural units: a relative autochthonous unit, an allochthonous peridotitic unit and a sedimentary cover (Campano/Maastrichtian to ...
Pauly, Daniel(Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2007-06)
The Sea Around Us Project, initiated by the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, PA, and located at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, started in mid 1999. Its goal was (and still ...
Kisel, Yael(Imperial College London, Division of Biology., 2010-12)
Many environmental factors and taxon traits have been studied as potential
controllers of diversification, but there is still no consensus as to which are most
important or how to link them into a general theory of ...
The national parks are more than landmarks, monuments,
and territories, more than mountains, forests, lakes, and
geologic wonders. They represent a piece of the American soul.
Edwin Bernbaum, PhD, is director of the ...
May-Collado, Laura J.; Wartzok, Douglas; Agnarsson, Ingi; Palacios, Jose David; Taubitz, Evi(2007)
The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) among the best known dolphin species
worldwide, largely for being the ‘favorite’ species to have in aquaria (Defran and Pryor
1980). Bottlenose dolphins are easily identified by ...